Associate Director Climate Change Strategy, Risk

**Job no**: 520387

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Melbourne, Perth, Parramatta, Sydney

**Division**: Audit, Assurance & Risk Consulting

KPMG is one of the most trusted and respected global professional services firms. Through depth of expertise, clarity of insight, and strength of purpose, we help our clients solve complex challenges, steer change, strengthen, transition, and grow sustainably and responsibly. We are looking for talented people who share our purpose of inspiring confidence and empowering change for our clients, people, communities, and planet.

KPMG's Climate Change & Sustainability service is focused on assisting a wide variety of Australian and International clients to understand and optimise their organisational response to the risks and opportunities of climate change, carbon management and emission reduction.

**The role in context**:
The growing influence of non-financial issues, including environmental performance and social impact, is reshaping the business landscape, affecting financial performance and long-term business success for our clients and communities. As markets move towards a greater focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks, our Climate Change and Sustainability Services team help our clients navigate a range of ESG risks and opportunities. A key area of focus is climate change and carbon. This is where you come in.

We work with leading organisations across industry sectors and cover a wide range of exciting areas, including:

- Integrating climate change strategy into sustainability, organisational risk management and strategic processes
- Assisting clients to understand and improve climate-related disclosure against the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
- Helping clients to establish their GHG-reduction goals and a pathway to achieving them
- Carbon Markets, projects and offsets, as well as carbon pricing
- Physical climate risk assessment including mitigation and risk management opportunities
- Transitional climate-related risk and opportunity assessments and effective use of scenario analysis
- Development of innovative and practical recommendations to manage risks and maximise opportunities
- Managing and reporting on climate, carbon and GHG data and developing key performance indicators
- Assisting both government and the private sector develop effective responses to climate change, including policies, guidelines and effective stakeholder engagement and management.

We work with organisations across various sectors, including infrastructure, government, mining, power and utilities, energy, oil and gas and retail.

In response to growing client demand for our services, there is an exciting opportunity for a climate change professional to join our team in Melbourne, Sydney or Perth.

**Your Opportunity**

To support our vibrant and growing Climate Change and Sustainability Services team we have an exciting opportunity for a new **Associate Director**.

This role takes guidance from Directors and Partners, in the Climate Change and Sustainability services team. Staying at the cutting edge of technology and innovation, to be part of continually building these elements into our service offering, is a key part of your role.

Essential expected leadership and behaviours are:

- Inspires others by developing and motivating people, championing inclusion, and connecting individuals by building collaboration
- Demonstrates a growth mindset by growing self, others and client relationships through self-awareness, innovation, and an exceptional client experience
- Is open to change and new ways of thinking and doing
- Tackling difficult decisions in conjunction with more senior team members by exercising sound, ethical business judgment
- Contributes to inclusion and diversity by role modelling inclusive behaviours and providing feedback to others as needed
- Builds and takes ownership of key business relationships by managing others to deliver quality work
- Manages the preparation, delivery, reporting and evaluation of assigned projects and engagements
- Provides advanced technical knowledge, direction and training to others
- Participates in team practice decisions including resource allocation, career development of people and other people management decisions
- Has a focus on business development, building networks and people development
- Actively collaborates within the firm through engagements and networks
- Contributes to sales through activities including identifying new opportunities, developing opportunities with existing clients, contributing to and/or managing the development of proposals, source case studies/credentials and development of the project plan
- Builds relationships with a broad range of business personnel over time and assists other team members by introducing them to these contacts.

**How You’re Extraordinary**

With an enthusiasm to deliver quality, you are technically minded, detail